ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,460, issued on June 30, was assigned to Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China) and BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Display panel and display device" was invented by Lei Deng (Beijing), Yue Wei (Beijing), Xia Tang (Beijing), Wei Deng (Beijing), Qian Wang (Beijing), Junxiu Dai (Beijing), Yang Zhou (Beijing), Xin Zhang (Beijing) and Yi Qu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a via hole penetrating through the display panel; a cutting residual area on the periphery of the via hole and includes a base substrate, and a pack...